Researchers at Purdue University have determined the high-resolution structure of immature Zika virus, a step toward better understanding how the virus infects host cells and spreads.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2017
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Researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University physicist Markus Deserno and University of Konstanz (Germany) chemist Christine Peter have developed a computer simulation that crushes viral capsids. By allowing researchers ...
General Physics
Oct 20, 2016
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HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is the retrovirus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Globally, about 35 million people are living with HIV, which constantly adapts and mutates creating challenges ...
Biochemistry
Jul 1, 2015
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Researchers working at the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo (member of the Institut Pasteur International Network), in collaboration with the Uruguayan Medical School, obtained for the first time ever high-resolution images ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2015
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Rice University scientists have won a race to find the crystal structure of the first virus known to infect the most abundant animal on Earth.
Biochemistry
Aug 18, 2014
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Rice University researchers are making strides toward a set of rules to custom-design Lego-like viral capsid proteins for gene therapy.
Biotechnology
Aug 12, 2013
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Biologists from Indiana University and Montana State University have discovered a striking connection between viruses such as HIV and Ebola and viruses that infect organisms called archaea that grow in volcanic hot springs. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2013
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A new model of the how the protein coat (capsid) of viruses assembles, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Biophysics, shows that the construction of intermediate structures prior to final capsid production ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2012
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Researchers at Rice University and their international colleagues have for the first time described the atomic structure of the protein shell that carries the genetic code of hepatitis E (HEV). Their findings, published in ...
Biochemistry
Jul 21, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Rice University's precise new image of a virus' protective coat is seriously undervalued. More than three years in the making, the image contains some 5 million ...
Feb 16, 2009
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